Jewish Renaissance

Jewish Renaissance

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File:Cover of Jewish Renaissance magazine.jpg July 2015 issue
Editor	Rebecca Taylor
Categories	Jewish culture
Frequency	Quarterly
Circulation	4,000
Publisher	Renaissance Publishing Ltd
Founder	Janet Levin
First issue	October 2001
Country	United Kingdom
Based in	London
Language	English
Website	www.jewishrenaissance.org.uk
ISSN	1476–1769

Jewish Renaissance is a quarterly cultural magazine, founded in October 2001, covering Jewish culture, arts and communities in Britain and beyond. It is edited by Rebecca Taylor, former News Editor at Time Out London.

Scope and content

The magazine focuses on the arts – visual arts and architecture, music, cinema, theatre and literature in Europe and in Israel – as well as on Jewish identity and relations with other cultures and religions. In each issue there is a 10–16 page illustrated feature on a different Jewish community around the world, drawing on historical material, contemporary interviews, and a cultural events listing, among other content. The January 2014 issue, for instance, focused on the Jews of Krakow, Poland.

The magazine also contains in-depth interviews of people of interest from a Jewish historical or cultural viewpoint. For example, it interviewed Mike Leigh prior to the Royal National Theatre production of his 2005 play Two Thousand Years, Glasgow artist Hannah Frank and philanthropists Elizabeth Sackler of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation and Nasser David Khalili. The magazine published an interview with Helga Bejach, a Jewish child rescued on the Kindertransport and subsequently adopted by the family of Richard and David Attenborough. In July 2012, on the eve of the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, it interviewed Israeli Paralympic rower Moran Samuel. In October 2013 it interviewed Dame Vivien Duffield. In January 2015 it interviewed violinist Irmina Trynkos.

The magazine also contains articles on such contemporary subjects as how the Jewish community is responding to climate change.

Organisation

The magazine is independent and is financed by subscriptions, advertising and grant funding. It is published by Renaissance Publishing, a registered charity, whose chief executive is Janet Levin (Jewish Renaissance's founder, who edited the magazine from 2001 to 2014). Notable individuals from the British Jewish arts world who sit on its editorial advisory board include the actress Maureen Lipman; Director of the Wiener Library, Ben Barkow; City Editor of London's Daily Mail, Alex Brummer; and playwright Arnold Wesker.

Awards

The magazine won the awards for the Best Non-Synagogue Magazine and for the Best Professional Article in the Board of Deputies of British Jews Awards in 2002.

External links

• Official website